She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
ZELDA FITZGERALDThey hadn’t much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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Don’t you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered – and I was delivered to you – to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.
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I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
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Oh, the secret life of man and woman–dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
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They hadn’t much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.
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